Holder for facilitating the application of oil to shoes.



0. ASHTON.

- HOLDER FOR FACILITATING THE APPLICATION OF OIL T0 SHOES.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 23, 1912.

1,035,406. Patented Aug. 13,1912.

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)RRELL ASHTON, OI? SVIAIVIISCOTT, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO UNITED SHOE MACHINERY COMPANY, OF PATERSON,

JERSEY.

NEW JERSEY, A: CORPORATION OF NEW HOLDER FOR FACILITATING THE APPLICATION OF OIL T SHOES;

Specification of Letters Patent.

Original application filed December 12, 1907, Serial No. 406,218. Divided and this application filed May 2a, 1912. Serial No. 6993231.

, citizen of the United States, residing at shoe may 'edge part of the way Swampscott, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Holders for Facilitating the Application of Oil to Shoes, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like reference characters on the drawings indicating like parts in the several figures.

This invention relates to the shoe shaping and finishing art and has for its object to provide a convenient and efiiclent means for the use of shoe shaping and finishing machine operators and others to facilitate the application to particular portions of a shoe to be treated with oil, vaseline, or tempering materials, herein designated for convenience as oil. The application of oil to the work is required in order to obtain the best results in several operations among which may be mentioned toe and heel seat pounding up, blocking "nd shaping, toe ironing and, under some conditions, toe lasting. For facilitating such application of oil to particular portions of a shoe I have devised a cup-shaped holder the front side of which is suitably cut away from the upper down to present an opening into which an end portion of a be thrust and I have provided in the holder an oil carrying medium such as a sponge or cotton waste into engagement with which the shoe is thus brought for application of the oil. The arrangement is such that the toe portion of a lasted shoe can be thrust sole face downwardly to wet with the oil the upper material on the margin of the shoe bottom preparatory to pre senting the shoe to a beating machine which will work the oil into the stock to soften the upper and enable it to be compacted more firmly by the beating operation. If

I the edge or edge and side of the shoe are or blocked, or ironed the to permit the shoe tobe and downward 'moyement against the oil carrying medhiinwhich, will, in that case. be banked against the also to be beaten, holder is adapted rear and side'walgs of the holder toeffect' .the application 0 the oil to the desired :p y a thrusting the toe, sole face upward, nto the holder and turning it as necessary in contact with the oilearryin table 2 in position for presentation of will conduct the oil to its upper surface capillary attraction,

portions of the upper on the side and bottom of the shoe without wetting to an object-ionable extent the sole within the marginal portion of the upper, where the oil would be wasted and, moreover, would be undesirable. If the toe portion of the vamp 18 to be ironed or treated'with a hot iron to shrink the vamp and remove wrinkles it is important to protect the surface of the up film of oil and this is done by medium.

This ap lication is a'division. of a plication Seria No. 406,213 filed'. Decem or 12, 1907 for improvements in shoe beating machines.

The invention will now be described in connection with the drawings and then be pointed out inthe claims.

Figure 1 shows a portion of a shoe shapin and finishing machine e uipped'w'ith thisinvention; Figs. 2,3, 4; an 5 show how the oil holder may be used. p I

In Fig. 1 is shown a machine having a table 2 and shafts from which are driven a toe trimmer 3 for preparing it lasted shoe to be beaten, a rotary heater '4, a blocking or polishing tool 5 and a frictionally' heated upper ironing mercial machinery in use in shoe factor es. The holder 8 is conveniently secured on the tie shoe toit after the surplus material of the toe has been removed by the trimmer 3 and preparatory to the presentation of the shoe to the beater, blocker and ironen The tool 6 arranged as in co1n holder is cup-shaped with its front wall out away from the upper edge downwardly part way only to its bottom on lines appropriate for forming an opening and seat to receive the toe portion of a shoe in the position shown in Figs. the-cup to receive the toe of the shoe, 0. seat 10 for the forepart of the shoe, and side and endwalls 11', 12, 13 between which the toe is positioned and which serve an additional purpose, Within the well I rovide an oil carrying medium 15, prefera 1y one-whigh Y and into which .theporbe thrust-to which an tion of the shoe is to.

The walls,

applicatiomof oil is to be made.

2 or 3. This forms a well in permits the operator, by the direction in cation of oil to shoes, comprising a cupthe shoe but also as faces extending above shaped structure having a well to receive an oil carrying medium and having one side cut away to provide a recess adapted to receive the toe portion of a shoe and presenting a seat and end and side walls 1], l2, 13 between which to position the toe for application of oil to the desired portions of the upper.

2. An oil holder for facilitating the application of oil to shoes, comprising a cupshaped structure having a well, an oil carrying medium arranged 11, 1 2, 13 not only serve as abutmcnts for the seat face 10 and against which the oil carrying medium may be banked to apply oil to the edges and sides of the shoe, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. This construction which the shoe is presented, see the arrows in Figs. 2, 3 and 4, to keep the surface of the oil carrying medium fiat, see Fig. 2, to apply oil only to the upper on the margin of the shoe bottom or to bank it up against the walls, see Figs. 3 and 4, for applying the oil to the edges and sides of the toe. The construction allows the heel portion of a shoe to be presented similarly to Figs. 2 or 3 or the heel or the tne to be presented end downwardly as suggested in Fig. 5.

It is obvious that other leather tempering or the like agencies than oil, Vaseline, etc, may be used in the holder.

Having explained the natureof my invention anddesciibed a preferred construction, I claim as new and desire to secure by f Letters Patent of the United States:

1. An oil holder for facilitating the appli- 1n the well, and an opening through one side adapted to. permit the toe portion of a shoe to be thrust downwardly and inwardly therethrough into the oil carrying medium in directions to bank the said carrying medium up against the walls. of the holder in position to'apply oil to the sides and edges of the toe.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ORRELL ASHTON.

Witnesses:

NORMAN C. HUSSEY, ELMER B. GRUsH.

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